I am not a fan of watching tennis at the best of times but some of the antics displayed in the Australian Open have become quite hilarious.

I find a lot of top level sports people, especially tennis players, are totally one dimensional with rewards far exceeding actual ability. Millions of dollars for belting a bloody ball back and forth over a net and then throwing childish tantrums when the call goes against them.

I couldn't stop laughing when that female in the final threw teddy out of her cot and went to work on dismantling her racquet. This results in the officials becoming very upset and fining the player about twenty cents which is probably never collected anyway.

I have come up with a great solution. These racquets are not cheap. Some of them cost in the thousands with the average punter never being able to afford one (or need one) and they are probably supplied buckshee anyway by the manufacturer. Here is what should be done;

When the player goes to work on the racquet it is then confiscated by the officials. When the player then plays in the next, say, four Open events, (Oz, US, Wimbledon and French) they have to use that buggered racquet in the first match. Just imagine the hysteria when someone is firing down a serve at about 160 kph and this fool is there holding onto a racquet that looks like it was targeted in an Al Capone drive by shooting. See how long before racquet demolishing becomes a thing of the past.

As for all the abuse they hand out to umpires and officials I can fix that too. Wheel out the recording and every time they are about to serve in future matches, play it at full blast on the big screen. Picture it, this dope bouncing the ball and calling for silence for concentration and the only noise to be heard is either him or her gobbing off. How can they complain when it is them that is making the noise.

I think they are pretty good ideas.

Made my day when the self opinionated, arrogant Serb went home. As for the rest of the Kindergarten. nuff sed.

The bloke doing the smoking ceremony probably uses the same criteria perfected by Warren Mundine in all of his failed attempts.

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They are no different to that idiot the Australian cricket selectors have found to open the batting.
He has the sportsmanship levels of a John McEnroe.

So we can hardly bag the tennis mob when we have a breeding ground with a loud-mouth, upstart hero with a modest batting average so far of 28.
Many sports people at the top level do now display terrible role model antics.
Look at Kohli going out of his way to make physical contact with the loud-mouth.
He should have got one match suspension for that automatically, not a token little fine.
It sends the wrong message.

Do agree though, it should be 10 grand a few game points lost when a tennis racquet flies.

Just like the umpires should have the power to warn Khawaja and the upstart about 5 or 6 overs from time, if they are obviously wasting time they get docked 10 runs or "timed" out and dismissed. At the end of the day that sort of time-wasting is not in the spirit of the game and is effectively a method of cheating. Cheating the opposition of a fair opportunity to succeed?

It is a shame when officials would have to make rules that were to govern good sportsmanship though.

Sorry.... is that good sportsPERSONship. Had to endure the Australia day ceremonies on Lake Burley Griffins edge on TV yesterday, so I am now fortunately 10% more woke in my beliefs after being educated with the speeches.
As a footnote, I went to school with the bloke doing the sm*king ceremony. He is 400 KM out of his "territory".
Must be an inter tribal thing now is it?
How does one welcome us to the region that they were not born on themselves?

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 Another hijacked thread that will surely end up in the bin. It was about Tennis, not intended for someone to slag off Cricket. Be creative, launch your diatribe on a separate thread.

Ronnie you truly are a very funny feller. Missed your vocation, should have been a comedian.